How can you help?

• Continue to refer cadets to Career Services for assistance with career development issues and questions.
• Encourage your cadets to set up a profile on KeydetConnect for both internships and jobs.
• Register on KeydetConnect in order to monitor employer internship and job opportunities for your cadets.  You must contact our office to set up an account, which should only take a few minutes. 
• Invite us to speak in your classes at all levels or in a majors meeting about careers related to your academic discipline.
• Compile a list of alumni in your major, what kinds of careers they are in now, and whether or not these are directly related to your discipline. Often cadets do not realize the flexibility of your undergraduate major.
• Collect information about internships related to your major. Alumni are a great resource. Share this information with the Career Services office.
• If you meet an employer who is interested in your academic program and your students, invite him to Post and arrange a meeting with Career Services. (Many times the organization will send a recruiter to Post for the first time after this kind of inter-departmental linkage.) At the very least, get his/her business card and give it to Career Services for a follow-up contact.
• Attend Information Sessions on Post, hosted by visiting recruiters who are hiring your majors. This kind of interest on the part of faculty goes a long way toward cementing bonds between organizations and the Institute.
• When your department hosts a visiting speaker or a seminar with outside experts, find out if the speakers will talk with students interested in pursuing the same careers. If so, inform Career Services and we will work with you to make arrangements for this type of networking.
• Include information about Career Services in your mailings.
• Take a poll of alumni in your major. Find out who is interested in helping cadets with internships/full-time employment. Give those names to Career Services and we will invite them back to Post to speak to cadets.
• Remind your majors that, when they graduate, they will be in the position to mentor cadets in the classes behind them, as well as to encourage their employers to recruit on Post for full-time employees and interns. They can sign up to become a Mentor in VMI's Alumni Mentoring Network KeydetConnect.
• Use part of a departmental meeting to meet with Career Services to exchange information about trends and issues pertaining to your discipline. Career Services welcomes your use of our resources in our Conference Room for this purpose. Then you and your colleagues can see our facilities and talk in some depth about what we have to offer your majors.
• If you are a freshman advisor, invite a Career Services staff member to talk with your advisees over lunch about career opportunities related to your discipline or the importance of internships.